Michel Kichka

(b. 1954, Israel)

Voyage en Israel

Michel Kichka is an Israeli caricaturist, illustrator and comic artist. Born in Liège, Belgium as the son of Holocaust survivors, Kichka moved to Israel in 1974. Influenced by the classical franco-belgian comics, he has made comics and caricatures in Hebrew and French for several newspaper and magazines around the world, including Le Monde in France. His caricaturistic city posters are famous around the world. Kichka's most famous comic series was 'Mister T', that was published in Mashehu between 1988 and 1992.

He also contributed a comic to the French comic anthology 'Voyage en Israël', and a comic about his childhood in Belgium to 'Einayim'. Kichka also wrote several articles about comics and culture and he is a senior lecturer of illustration and comic art at the Bezalel Academy's Visual Communications Department. Michel Kichka was invested with a knighthood in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011.